Even murder by a federal official cannot be decided by state court, Meadows' lawyers said in court documents.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' indictment of Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff, has almost become 'unglued' and should be dismissed, his lawyers said in court documents.In its latest filing, Meadows' legal team said Georgia prosecutors spoke 'ad nauseam' about how Meadows could not have operated within his federal role during the 2020 presidential election.
Meadows was acting well within his federal role. And, as a matter of law, the contours of that role cannot be defined by any state authority, whether local prosecutor or state judge; instead, they are defined entirely by federal law, without reference to state law,' they wrote.The lawyers cited the 1920 case of Johnson v.
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